Willie Dunn
Director · 1942 – 2013 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Willie Dunn was born on August 14, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a composer and director, known for The Ballad of Crowfoot (1969), Rose's House (1977) and These Are My People... (1969). He was married to Liz Moore. He died on August 5, 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Movie4.0ComedyMysteryThis all-Native production, by director Shelley Niro (Mohawk), is part of the Smoke Signals new wave of films that examine Native identity in the 1990’s. Set on the Grand Pine Indian Reservation, aka “Reservation X”, HONEY MOCCASIN combines elements of melodrama, performance art, cable access, and ‘whodunit’ to question conventions of ethnic and sexual identity as well as film narrative. A comedy/thriller complete with a fashion show and torchy musical numbers, this witty film employs a surreal pastiche of styles to depict the rivalry between bars The Smokin’ Moccasin and The Inukshuk Cafe, the saga of closeted drag queen/powwow clothing thief Zachary John, and the travails of crusading investigator Honey Moccasin. This irreverent reappropriation of familiar narrative strategies serves as a provocative spring-board for an investigation of authenticity, cultural identity, and the articulation of modern Native American experience in cinematic language and pop culture.
Honey Moccasin
1998 · 1 votes
Movie8.5DocumentaryA performing arts film by Alanis Obomsawin, it documents efforts to raise funds for the James Bay Cree and was made at a time when Cree territory was threatened by hydro-electric projects. Amisk represents early work by Obomsawin, a trailblazer in Canadian Aboriginal film.
Amisk
1977 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaIn this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him to be a white man and tries to find a way of life more meaningful to his Indigenous culture and ancestry.
Cold Journey
1975 · 1 votes